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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 12/08/2026

Did you know I do all my vectoring on the track pad of my laptop? I promise my wrist and fingers are ok!

Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 22/07/2026

So grateful for the chance to talk about @armadillostock.bsky.social on the main stage at @iconconference.bsky.social! And so grateful to meet and chat with so many lovely illustrators. #icon13

Photo of me speaking at a podium with my illustration projected behind me

Collage of artist business cards, postcards, and stickers

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 14/07/2026

Hi #portfolioday! I've been working as a freelance vector illustrator and educator across a number of industries since 2010. I'll see you later this week at @iconconference.bsky.social!

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 06/05/2026

The Weekend Couch. I enjoyed going big on the colors with this one.

Colorful illustration of a woman lounging on a couch

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 14/04/2026

Hi #PortfolioDay! Here's a brand new tree illustration, and some tree portraits I've drawn in the past. Trees are so confounding! I end up taking a different approach every time I draw one 🌳

Illustration of a big green tree with a birdwatcher standing at the bottom and a blue jay in the branches

Illustration of a tall expressive tree in a suburban neighborhood

Illustration of two tall trees in a park overlooking the city

Illustration of a big orange tree with houses nestled in the branches

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 23/02/2026

Reading a book at the end of the world 📗🌋

illustration of a woman sitting in a window seat with a blanket and pillows, reading a book while a volcano erupts outside

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 11/02/2026

Some thoughts behind my illustrations for the Love and Other Catastrophes and Go Fish blurays, part 2

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 11/02/2026

Some thoughts behind my illustrations for the Love and Other Catastrophes and Go Fish blurays, part 1

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 02/10/2025

Ok hear me out, what if cave paintings depict animals more often than human figures because our ancient ancestors were furries?

The lion panel at Chauvet cave, depicting overlapping line drawings of lions and bison

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 18/08/2025

If you find drawing "deeply unpleasant" then don't do it

"Like, I just sincerely don't think that given how deeply unpleasant trying to learn art is if you're anything other than naturally gifted..." with "deeply unpleasant" highlighted

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 18/08/2025

Chappell Roan (2025) / Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Chappell Roan on the set of Subway in clothes made of hair

Hedwig during "Wig in a Box" in clothes made of hair

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 14/08/2025

I think Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter and the woman that everyone thinks is Rosie the Riveter should kiss

Norman Rockwell's illustration for the Saturday Evening Post of a buff woman in denim eating a sandwich and holding a riveter

The famous We Can Do It poster, with a woman in a red bandana flexing her bicep

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 20/07/2025

This is also the female gaze btw

Album cover for Sabrina Carpenter's "Man's Best Friend"

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 20/07/2025

“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1992:

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 18/07/2025

Oh, you all thought Nathan was joking?

Image from The Rehearsal Season 2 where Nathan Fielder portrays Paramount as literal nazis

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 16/07/2025

Little warm up comic. Millennials need to chill lol

Roughly-drawn two panel comic called Generational Trauma. In the first panel, boomers say "you suck!" and millennials say, "no, YOU suck!" In the second panel, gen z stares, and millennials say, "no, YOU suck!"

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 13/07/2025

Ah, yes, tell me more about how AI is like a magic trick

AI loses its mystique. Much like learning how a magic trick works, this knowledge strips away the wonder. With it, the interest in using AI fades.

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 11/07/2025

This was how they looked on Monday btw

Two pink fleshy baby robins with some dark patches and a bit of fuzz. One can be seen with closed eyes and an open mouth

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 11/07/2025

Snapped another pic while mama was away. Just over a week old!

Photo of two baby robins squeezed together in their nest

Photo of two baby robins, one of them with an open yellow beak

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 10/07/2025

Something this book taught me about Nazi Germany is how the nazis and conservatives hated each other but agreed to work together, because the conservatives didn't want to do their own dirty work of oppressing people to maintain their power, while the nazis were brutes who were too stupid to govern.

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 09/07/2025

I realize now, the reason Elon doesn't care how many advertisers leave Twitter is because HE'S the advertiser. He really bought a $44 billion ad space just to sell fascism to the world. What a fucking loser.

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 08/07/2025

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Michele, a freelance vector illustrator in New York, always looking for puzzles to solve. Since 2010 I've worked in tech, publishing, packaging, healthcare, nonprofit, and more. Currently, I'm launching the licensing site @armadillostock.bsky.social. 🎨 michelerosenthal.com

Illustration of a stressed artist at work, surrounded by her happy drawings

Front and back covers for the blu-ray Go Fish, featuring nail clippers and a lot of lesbian faces

Still life of items on a bedside table at 3am

Illustrations of a woman writing at a desk and a man playing guitar, both labeled "Artists are Workers"

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 08/07/2025

I just remembered, this was the example sentence I used to use back when I taught dashes and quotation marks as part of my InDesign class

Subway’s “foot-long” subs are—apparently—only 11"–11.5" long.

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 07/07/2025

There's a robin's nest on my house where the eggs have recently hatched! I tried to get a follow up pic today, but the mom was there and chased me away and now she's angry at me

Overhead photo of a nest with two blue robin's eggs

Overhead photo of a nest with two recently hatched pink fleshy blobs with yellowish fuzz

Photo of an angry looking robin standing on a wood railing

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 02/07/2025

I love The Producers because it's the only movie that accurately portrays fascism as it is: corny and cringe

Screenshot from The Producers: dancers posing in SS uniforms on a Broadway stage

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 30/06/2025

19. There's a scene in this book where Emma Goldman hooks up with Evelyn Nesbit

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 30/06/2025

17. Melissa Etheridge 18. k.d. lang

Black and white photo of Melissa Etheridge performing

Stylish photo of k.d. lang in a black blazer

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 30/06/2025

16. Hate-watching every episode of The L Word except the last season because I refused

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 30/06/2025

15. One of the only media representations of a trans lesbian, from Sense8

Screenshot of the Sense8 lesbians kissing

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 26/06/2025

Sorry everyone, I'm fully Mamdani-pilled

Portrait of the next mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani, with the text "we can win!"

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 25/06/2025

So what I'm saying is I'm responsible for Mamdani's win! No, lol. What I'm saying is Mamdani's win was made possible because of the *decades* of activists organizing that came before it. Some people are saying the work needs to start yesterday. The point I want to make is that it already has!

Photo of a Let NY Vote rally, with me holding up a sign in the background

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